Combined hay and stock rack.



No. 891,881. PATENTED JUNE 30, 1908. G. W. TRIGGER. COMBINED HAY AND STOCK RACK.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. 29, 1907.

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No. 891,881. PATENTED JUNE 30, 1908. O. W. TRIGGER.

COMBINED HAY AND STOCK RACK.

APPLICATION FILED 0OT.29, 1907.

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COMBINED HAY AND STOCK BACK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 30, 1908.

Application filed October 29, 1907. Serial No. 399,686.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES WV. TRIGGER, of .the city of St. Thomas, in the Province of Ontario, Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Combined Hay and Stock Racks, of which the following .is a specification.

My object is to arrange a hay rack provided with a movable car so that it may be readily converted into a stock rack without the use of extra parts. I also aim to get the car as low as possible to avoid top heaviness.

Briefly my device comprises a wagon box provided with a track at each side of the bottom on which run the wheels of a car. The box is provided with wings which are adjustable to vertical or inclined positions to form the sides of a stock or hay rack. The wings of the car are removable and may be connected to the sides of the box to complete the sides of the stock rack. The car is provided with a removable standard or end which may be secured to the box in a reversed position to form one end of the stock rack. The box standard or end is also reversible to adopt it for use in the hay rack or stock rack.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved rack when used as a hay rack. Fig. 2 is an end view of the same. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of my rack when used as a stock rack. Fig. 4 is a perspective detail of one of the sockets of the car with which the cross bars of the wings are engaged. Fig. 5 is a sectional elevation showing the method of connecting the wings to the box.

In the drawings like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the different figures.

A is a wagon box, in the bottom of which are formed or secured the tracks B. The box is provided with wings O which are formed of longitudinal slats secured to the cross bars D. These cross bars are hooked to engage the pins a on the brackets E which brace the sides of the box.

Each cross bar D has a diagonal brace F hinged thereon, which bars engage in the angle of the brackets E when the rack is arran ed as a hay rack.

W hen the wings are turned up to the vertical position these braces may be either removed or allowed to hang.

The standard G at the end of the box may be of any ordinary construction, but it is preferably reversed in position when the de Vice is used for a stock rack. (See Fig. 3).

On the tracks B runs a car. This car is formed by longitudinal members II and transverse members I secured thereto. On the longitudinal members are formed bearings for shafts J, which carry the wheels K, which run on the tracks B.

The transverse members of the car are formed with inclined angle bars L, which extend diagonally in a lateral and upright direction. These are suitably braced from the longitudinal members by the brackets 1).

Towards its outer end each bar L is provided with a socket 0 adapted to receive the inner end of one of the cross bars M of the ear wings N. These cross bars M are supported by the outer ends of the bars L, and are held in engagement therewith by the sockets c.

The wings N of the car are thus removable, and they may be set up with the cross bars M engaged with the brackets E, as shown in Fig. 3, to form the remaining portion of the sides of the stock rack.

The standard O of the car is formed of cross slats secured to vertical bars P which are fitted into sockets or straps (Z secured to the end transverse member of the car. The standard may be removed and reversed to form one end of the stock rack, the vertical bars P being fitted into the sockets c secured to the end of the wagon box.

For the purpose of moving the car on the tracks it is provided with a Windlass A cord R-is wound on this Windlass, passes from the same around the guilding sheaf and is suitably secured to the near end of the wagon box. (See Fig. 1). By rotating the Windlass to wind up this cord the car will be drawn to the near end of the box. A cord S is wound on the Windlass in the reverse direction, passes around the sheaf g suitably journaled on the end of the car, and passes to the other end of the box where it is suitably secured. By operating the Windlass to wind up this cord the car will be drawn to the other end of the box. Either cord, it will be seen, is unwound as the other is wound up.

The mode of operation and advantage of a car upon a hay rack are well known and need not here be specifically referred to, but

I attain a great advantage in my rack by supporting the car upon tracks located in the bottom of the wagon box, something which has not heretofore been attem ted. I thus bring the Wei 'ht of the car an the load it supports as low down as it is possible to get them, thus avoiding the top heaviness of older constructions. I also secure a greater strength by this arrangement, and bring less strain to bear upon the rack roper.

The wings and standard 0' the car being removable and the box adapted to receive them as forming part of the side of the stock rack, I am enabled to form the latter without any additional parts.

It will be noted that the car itself is formed almost entirely of angle iron or steel, which makes it exceedingly light and strong. Of course variations may be made in the details of construction without departing from the spirit of my invention.

WVhat I claim as my invention is:

1. In a rack the combination of a wagon box; tracks in the bottom thereof; a car provided with wheels adapted to run on said tracks; and wings carried by said car and extending laterally over the sides of the box.

2. In a rack the combination of a wagon box; tracks in the bottom thereof; a car provided with wheels adapted to run on said tracks; removable wings carried by said car and extending laterally over the sides of the box; and means for securing said wings in a vertical position on the box to form part of the sides of a stock rack.

3. In a rack the combination of a wagon box; tracks in the bottom thereof; a car provided with wheels adapted to run on said tracks; removable Wings carried by said car and extending laterally over the sides of the box; means for securing said wings in a vertical position on the box to form part of the sides of a stock rack; a removable standard connected to the end of the car and means for securing said standard in a vertical position at the end of the box.

4. In a rack the combination of; a support; tracks carried thereby; a car provided with wheels adapted to run on said tracks; wings removably secured on said car; and means for securing said wings in a vertical position outside said tracks to form part of the sides of a stock rack.

5. In a rack the combination of a su port; tracks carried thereby; a car provided with wheels adapted to run on said tracks; wings removably secured on said car; means for securing said Wings in a vertical position outside said tracks to form part of the sides of a stock rack; a removable standard connected to the end of the car; and means for securing said standard in a vertical position at one end of said tracks.

6. In a rack the combination of a wagon box; tracks supported thereon; a car comprising longitudinal and transverse members, and provided with wheels adapted to run on said tracks; outwardly inclined sockets on said transverse members; and wings comprising cross bars and longitudinal slats, the

ars being removably fitted into said sockets.

7. In a rack the combination of a wagon box; tracks sup orted thereon; a car comprising longitu inal and transverse members, and provided with wheels ada ted to run on said tracks; sockets on saic transverse members; wings comprising cross bars and longitudinal slats, the bars being removably fitted into said sockets; and sockets secured to the sides of the box in which said bars may be fitted.

St. Thomas, Ont., eighteenth October,

CHARLES WESLEY TRIGGER. Signed in the presence of REAH LOUISE PAVEY, H. CHAMBERS. 

